Premium Salad Bowl Choice Harvest of Heirloom Lettuce Seeds

Salad Bowl (Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl') is a beloved heirloom loose-leaf lettuce, known for its sweet, tender flavor and exceptional resistance to bolting in summer heat. An All-America Selections winner from 1952, it grows as a generous, ruffled rosette of deeply lobed, oakleaf-style leaves instead of a tight head. The crisp, delicate leaves stay sweet and never turn bitter as temperatures climb. Harvest the outer leaves as needed and leave the center crown to keep producing or cut the whole rosette at once.

Germination: Approximately 7–10 days in warm soil.

Maturity: Approximately 21–30 days for baby greens; 45–45 days after transplanting, depending on growing conditions.

Genus: Lactuca sativa.

Quantity: 0.5g (approx. 500) Premium Heirloom Seeds.

Appearance: Loose, ruffled rosettes of bright green, deeply lobed oakleaf-style leaves form a full, open head.

Flavor & Uses: Crisp, tender, and mildly sweet, these leaves are ideal for fresh salads, sandwiches, wraps, and garnishes. Harvest young for baby greens or mature for full-size leaves.

Growth Habit: This cool-season, loose-leaf lettuce grows as an open rosette rather than a tight head and tolerates summer heat better than most varieties. It grows well in garden beds and containers.

Growing Notes: Start seeds indoors 3–4 weeks before transplanting. Seedlings tolerate light frost, so transplant them 2–4 weeks before your last spring frost. Sow seeds 1/4 inch deep in fertile, well-draining soil in full sun to partial shade, starting as soon as the soil can be worked in spring and again in late summer for a fall crop. Thin seedlings to 6–8 inches apart. Keep soil evenly moist and provide afternoon shade in hot weather to extend the harvest.

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